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Rangefinder

Definition: Rangefinder

Rangefinder

Noun

1. A measuring instrument (acoustic or optical or electronic) for finding the distance of an object.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Rangefinder

Synonym: range finder (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Rangefinder

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A rangefinder is an optical device that allows distance to be measured by triangulantion.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Rangefinder."

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Commercial Usage: Rangefinder

DomainTitle

Books

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Rangefinder

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

rangefinder

71

laser rangefinder

37

bushnell rangefinder

37

rangefinder camera

23

nikon rangefinder

20

canon rangefinder

16

golf and rangefinder

14

leica rangefinder

13

magazine rangefinder

8

camera other rangefinder

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Rangefinder

Language Translations for "rangefinder"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

测距仪 (Ambulator). (various references)

   

Danish

  

afstandsmaaler (range-finder). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

afstandsmeter (range finder, range-finder, telemeter). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

etäisyysmittari (range finder, telemeter). (various references)

   

French

  

télémètre (range finder, range-finder). (various references)

   

German

  

Entfernungsmesser (range finder, range-finder, telemeter). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

τηλέμετρο (range-finder). (various references)

   

Italian

  

telemetro (range-finder, telemeter). (various references)

   

Manx

  

feddyner orraghey. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

angefinderray.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

telémetro (range finder, range-finder, telemeter). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

telémetro (range finder, range-finder, telemeter). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Rangefinder

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-f-g-i-n-n-r-r"

-2 letters: deafening, deferring, endearing, engrained, grenadier, grenadine, reearning, refrained, rendering, rereading.

-3 letters: deringer, endanger, ferriage, fingered, fingerer, gardener, garnered, inferred, infrared, rarefied, regained, regainer.

-4 letters: adenine, aginner, angered, angrier, darning, deaning, definer, deraign, derange, dernier, drainer, dreeing, earning, earring, energid, engined, engrain, enraged, farding, fearing, feeding, feigned, feigner, fending, fernier, ferried, freeing, fringed, gnarred, gradine, grained, grainer, grandee, grander, grannie, grenade, grinder, grinned, grinner, nardine, nearing, needing, nerdier, randier, rangier, readier, reading, rearing, reeding, reefing, refined, refiner, refired, refrain, refried, reginae, regrade, regrind, reigned, rending.

-5 letters: aedine, aeried, aerier, agreed, arider, danger, daring, darner, deafen, deafer, dearer, dearie, defang, defier, define, denari, denier, dinger, dinner, dragee, earing, earned, earner, edgier, endear, ending, endrin, engine, engird, ennead, enrage, errand, erring, fadein, fading, faerie, fainer, faired, fairer, fanged, fanned, fanner, faring, feared, fearer, feeing, fender, feriae, ferine, finder, finger, finned, fridge, friend, fringe, gained, gainer, gander, garden, garner, garred, geared, gender, genera, ginned, ginner, girder, girned, grader, gradin, inaner, indene, infare, narine, neared, nearer, nereid, raider, rained, ranged, ranger, raring, reader, reagin, reared, redear, redfin, rediae, reding, reearn, refind, refine, refire, regain, regard, regear, regina, reined, render, reread, ringed, ringer.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Rangefinder


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 61 6E 67 65 66 69 6E 64 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100001 01101110 01100111 01100101 01100110 01101001 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#97 &#110 &#103 &#101 &#102 &#105 &#110 &#100 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0061 006E 0067 0065 0066 0069 006E 0064 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5267807371727580707184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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